South Cape May Meadows - Monday July 18th 2011

South Cape May Meadows, Cape May, Jul 18, 2011 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Still a couple of fledged AmericanOystercatchers with two adults, and Piping Plover on the beach. Numerous fly-over dowitchers as well as feeding in the mud flats, with a few other shorebirds, including a fly-over Whimbrel. Many terns and gulls off shore in the "Rips".
60 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 6
Mallard 35
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 4
Glossy Ibis 25
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Piping Plover 6
Killdeer 12
American Oystercatcher 6
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Whimbrel 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 30
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 3
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 60
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 25
Black Skimmer 2
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 1
Carolina Wren 3
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 5

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